Not many things have gone wrong for Ubaldo Jimenez this year, but on Tuesday he got the loss in a game in which he threw seven innings, allowing one run on four hits. Mike Pelfrey and a pair of relievers shut out the Rockies and handed Jimenez his third loss of the season.

This is familiar ground for Zack Greinke. Eight innings, one run, eight strikeouts, one walk, six hits, one no-decision. The fact that Jeff Weaver went eight innings with 11 strikeouts and one run and didn’t get the decision either likely isn’t of much comfort.

A.J. Burnettgot the loss despite eight innings of one-run baseball because Bryan Bullington threw eight shutout innings against the Yankees. That still feels weird to say. Burnett did what you are supposed to do against the Royals. He held them to one run on four hits, striking out six.

I don’t know if this happens to Cole Hamels more than others, but I tend to remember him as being hit with this kind of loss more often than just about anybody else. On Friday, his eight-inning, one-run, eight-strikeout performance against the Mets was overshadowed by R.A. Dickey’s shutout.

Brett Anderson was on the wrong side of a dominating performance by Felix Hernandez. Anderson tossed seven frames, allowing one run, striking out seven, walking two. Nevertheless, His Royal Highness struck out 13 in eight scoreless to make Anderson the loser.

In Jackson’s other start this week, he had his efforts spoiled by a J.J. Putz blown save. He was saddled with a no-decision despite striking out 11 in seven frames and yielding only one run on five hits.

When it comes to the Mets' famous minor leaguer, it's not just will he get major league time, but should he.

Ross Ohlendorf and Brett Myers ended the day with matching no-decisions after 13 and two-thirds innings in which they combined to allow one run on 11 hits failed to settle things. Ohlendorf was in line for the victory, but Evan Meek destroyed that by getting hammered for four runs while retiring only one batter in the eighth.

Hisanori Takahashi got the loss and the hold thanks to Manny Acosta, who allowed the base runners inherited from Takahashi to score. Acosta gets the blown save. Takahashi gets the hold because he still handed the lead to the next guy. But he also gets the loss because the go-behind* run was charged to him.

Alex Gonzalez drove in seven runs in 26 plate appearances. In other news, he hit .227/.308/.364 and lost a few ticks off of his OPS for the season.

Carlos Lee was really quite bad despite driving in six. .217/.250/.391 from a bad defensive corner outfielder is disgraceful, but it is something Houston fans have been used to in this season while the bottom has fallen out of Lee’s career.

Sanchez Award

At .294/.294/.353., Willie Bloomquist is who we thought he was. Actually with a .248/.283/.350 line overall, this was a better than average week for him. But as a Royals fan complaining about Willie Bloomquist, I am not exactly treading new ground here.

Denard Span is a hitter who actually does have value most weeks. This was an unusually bad week for his secondary skills as he ended at .280/.280/.360 with only two extra base hits and one walk in 25 at-bats.

AL: Bobby Abreu collected 11 hits and four walks in 25 PA. Five of the 11 hits went for extra bases and he ended the week at .524/.615/.952. Well done. I feel I should mention that even after all this years, I still try to insert a second “a” in Abreu between the e and the u.

NL: Mike Stanton went deep in three straight games and hit .583/.630/1.292 in 27 PA this week. He raised his OPS by 134 points.